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  • lizc's blog
    HOLIDAY INSURANCE
    Hello Does anybody out there know of any insurance company that will insure a terminally ill patient to go abroad that doesn't cost as much as the holiday itself. I would say that at the moment my husband is OK although the cancer is deemed to be terminal.
    Former Member
  • Julesx2's blog
    Side Effects?
    Hi has anyone else had these side effects from CMF. I have had 2 doses and am due to go back next week for my next cycle. Apart from feeling rough for 5 days afterwards I have felt really good until a couple of days go when I started to feel light headed, and loose my balance occasionally. On top I am getting a wee bit forgetful-my family tease me that it is my age! I have read on another site about this and wandered if anyone else has found this.Julesx
    Former Member
  • tiggerx2's blog
    It’s the waiting that I cannot stand
    I was diagnosed with Breast Cancer last Wednesday and although it was a huge shock three days later I find that I have come to terms with it and that I just want to get it dealt with. So, here I writing to help me vent my frustrations, I feel like a grumpy old woman! The mammogram and scan showed that not only was there a lump that is cancerous but there is a shadow which needs to be investigated. This calls for a ‘core biopsy’ which at the initial consultation it was suggested that this could...
    Former Member
  • adintnah's blog
    Stem Cell Harvest & Transplant
    At my weekly clinic visit yesterday, my Key Nurse handed me a booklet highlighting the in's and out's of Stem Cell Harvest and Transplant. We have spoken about it before but that seemed so long ago it is in the dim and distant past. The Doctor is happy with my progress and wants to schedule a multi diciplianry care team meeting with me and my family and the team to discuss STH&T. I have to say there are a lot of questions that i would like answering first before I simply say yes to it. I am aware...
    Former Member
  • laura 1964's blog
    Thank god for this site
    Hello All, Thank god for this site, I was about at my wits end & feeling so lonely, my mum was diagnosed with non small cell lung cancer 2 weeks ago which can't be cured, but, she has been offered clinical trials which I think she is going to go for which can improve quality of live & prolong (god I hope so) just reading some of the other bloggs has given me such hope & inspiration for my wee maw, my mum is such a fighter, she had cancer of the womb when she was 40 & nailed that, a kidney removed...
    Former Member
  • lcbs72's blog
    new blog
    Hi all Just thought i'd start writing a blog thought it might help me and maybe some others get through some touigh times. Just aboout to start my next lot of chemo in every day until 22/12 quite an intense time. still just taking one day at a time sometimes when feeling crap just one hour at atime!! Bit fed up with all this talk of chritstmas not a good time of year when your poorly. Still am organised and have done all shopping thank god for internet! and wrapped so husband doesn,t have to worry...
    Former Member
  • adintnah's blog
    Some Thoughts
    I am coming to the end of my fourth cycle of CTD treatment. Each cycle lasts for three weeks, starting on a friday and finishing three weeks later on a Thursday when I see my consultant. The treatment is all self medicating and consists of me taking chemotherapy tablets every Friday. followed by a very well regimented and managed regime of dexemethasone (steroid) and Thalidomide. The Thalidomide I take on an evening and have to say at first I was very apprehensive about this drug. (being of a certain...
    Former Member
  • Allpeachy's blog
    Facing new challenges
    I need to write this down to 'debrief'. Today I faced what felt like the hardest challenge I have every had. It was my cousin's funeral and the family who have alienated me through directing their anger wrongly at me were going to be there. Since the rift I am totally alone as a single mum, with no other family nearby. I knew I wanted to, had to, go to his funeral for him, and his family, and for myself as we have shared such comfort in both experiencing cancer at the same time - it meant so...
    Former Member
  • KAZx2's blog
    CAN'T BE ARSED
    Had my fifth of six Chemo's just over a week ago. The last three lots being Docetaxel, thankfully didn't feel as bad as the last time. However I felt really depressed, am I the only one who gets angry and annoyed when all you see and hear at the moment is Christmas. Quite frankly 'Can't be arsed - not interested !!' My sons being bullied at school, my husbands job isn't very safe and to top it all my neighbour reversed into our car, so now we have to sort all of that out. When will it all end ! ...
    Former Member
  • Angiebabe's blog
    Breast Reconstruction
    Hello everyone I am home after my recent operation and feeling quite elated and inflated if not sore . Had my op on Monday 10th Nov and came home 3 days later, in quite a bit of pain and weak but am now well on the road to recovery. The morning of the op didnt start off too promising we were lined up in a corridor awaiting our turn to book in after which we were herded into a communal waiting room to await theatre. It was a mixture of patients old an young, male an female, with graffiti marked limbs...
    Former Member
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